EXTRACT FROM MINUTES OF TRUSTEES' MEETING
A meeting of the Trustees of Dartmouth College was held in their room in the Parkhurst Administration Building in Hanover, New Hampshire, on October 28, 1921, at 2:30 o'clock in the afternoon.
There were present President Hopkins, Gov. Brown and Messrs. Streeter, Parkhurst, Gile, Lord, Blunt and Little.
Votes of appreciation
The President was requested to express the appreciation of the Trustees for gifts to the College, as follows:
To Professor George D. Lord and Mr. Edward T. S. Lord for the gift of a daguerreotype of Daniel Webster.
To Messrs. Thomas W. Streeter and Mitchell Kennerley for the gift of a bust of Richard Hovey and for the manuscript of Hovey's translation of Maeterlinck's play, TheBlind.
To Mrs. Benjamin Tenney for the gift of a portrait of Professor Henry E. Parker.
To Mr. John Herbert for the gift of a lot of land on Stinson Lake, Rumney, N. H.
To the Class of '71 for funds for a cabin in memory of Melvin 0. Adams.
Leave of absence
Leave of absence was granted to George Raffalovich, assistant professor of French, for the year 1921-1922, and to Albert H. Washburn, professor of international law, for the year 1921-1922.
Award of Degrees
On the recommendation of the Faculty the following degrees were awarded in course:
As with the Class of 1919
Bachelor of Arts Bachelor of Science Stanley Small Gerrish Louis Faucher Cody-Herbert Paul Fleming
As with the Class of 1920
Bachelor of Arts Bachelor of Science
Warren Miller Chamberlain
As with the Class of 1921
Bachelor of Arts
Rudolphus Porter Alger Russell Bailey Hugh Gilbert Cruikshank John Herbert, Jr. Reginald Sylvester Parks Dana Edmund Pearson Joseph Shaw Harold Holmes Smith James Wallace Stanley
Bachelor of Science
Roland Cheswell Batchelder Jeremiah Lee Bausher Charles Randall Childs Charles Packard Gilson Theodore Dunlap Hartshorn Allan Baum Kernan Lewis Pound McKay Robert Rehberg Martin Gordon Phelps Merriam Paul Edward Mott Edward Grosvenor Plowman Howard Douglas Slayton Everett Bailey Taylor
Elections
The following elections were made by ballot:
Gardner C. Basset to be Vocational Counselor in the office of the Associate Dean, with the rank of professor; David Lattimore to be Professor of Eastern Civilization, beginning with the second semester of the academic year 1921-1922; Norman J. Silberling to be Assistant Professor of Economics; Russell Donald Kilborn to be Assistant Professor of Finance and Banking in the Tuck School.
Appointments
The following appointments were made, all for one year:
Arthur Corning White to be instructor in English, Andre Viaud to be instructor in French, Charles H. Spooner to be instructor in mathematics, Raymond H. Spinney to be instructor in English, James G. Stevens to be part-time instructor in English, Wallace Wright to be instructor in economics, George H. Ryden to be instructor and secretary of the course in citizenship, Wayne E. Stevens to be instructor in history, Carney Landis to. be instructor in psychology, Lucien Dean Pearson to be instructor in English, Charles Conant Josey to be instructor in psychology, James Dow McCallurn to be instructor in English.
For the second semester of the academic year 1921-1932, Dana Rice was appointed to be instructor in modern art.
Instruction in tutoring schools
Voted: That the Trustees express their strong conviction that the connection of members of the Faculty with tutoring schools in Hanover or with such schools preparing largely for Dartmouth College is detrimental to the interests of the College.
Appointment of Advisor in Mental Hygiene
Dr. Charles P. Bancroft was appointed Advisor in matters relating to ,mental hygiene for the year 1921-1922.
War record
Voted to approve the project of publishing a war record of the College,
Vote of sympathy for Professor Bartlett
On motion of Mr. Blunt it was voted to request the President to convey to Professor Edwin J. Bartlett the sympathy of the Trustees in his illness and their hope for his speedy recovery.
Selection of applicants for admission
The President laid before the Trustees a vote of the Committee of the Faculty on Admission relating to selection of candidates for admission to the freshman class, which, after full discussion, was unanimously adopted, as follows :
Voted that hereafter in making selection of candidates for admission to the freshman class of the College the following principles shall prevail:
A. THE ELEMENTS OF SELECTION
The elements determining selections shall be:
1. Exceptional Scholarship, which shall be considered indicative of proved intellectual capacity, and which when accompanied by endorsement of character shall be held a sufficient basis for selection.
2. High Scholarship, which shall be considered prima facie evidence in favor of selection.
3. Character, as indicated by the Personal Ratings by School Officers and others acquainted with the applicant and Promise as indicated by blanks descriptive of school activities.
4. Priority of Application among candidates of like attainments.
5. The Principle of preserving the variety of types of home from which men come by attention to Professional and OccupationalDistribution in regard to parents.
6. The Principle of Geographical Distribution.
7. All properly qualified Sons of DartmouthAlumni and Dartmouth College Officers shall be accepted.
8. Low Scholarship shall be accepted as presumptive evidence of inability to do college work, either because of poorness of preparation or because of lack of intellectual capacity. Consequently, low scholarship shall be considered as disqualifying an applicant for admission.
9. The entire class shall be selected on the basis of qualification according to the above specifications and no one shall be allowed to enter simply because he has secured rooming accommodations.
B. DETAILS OF THE SELECTIVE PROCESS 1. Specific interpretations of these principles and their application; such as to exact numbers, choices between applicants apparently equally desirable, etc., shall be left to the Director of Admissions.
2. Selection on the basis of Exceptional or High Scholarship shall in general be made from among those entering by special certificates from the highest quarter of their classes. If entrance is had by combination of certificate and examination or by examination alone, selection by high scholarship shall be determined on the basis of certificate or examination data at hand.
3. Personal Ratings and School Activities shall be used supplementary to Scholastic records, and those which indicate men who are plainly possessed with qualities of leadership or qualities of outstanding promise shall be given particular consideration as compared with, the records of those otherwise qualified by high scholarship ranks with no evidence of positive qualities otherwise.
4. Applicants shall be divided according to Priority of Application into groups, and selection made in turn from these groups.
5. The principle of Professional and Occtipational Distribution shall be used to choose among groups of men otherwise equally desirable and shall be used especially to protect in selection men properly qualified scholastically, but to whom available aid is essential for undertaking a college course.
6. The principle of Geographical Distribution shall so operate for the time being that
(a) admission will be given to all properly qualified members of the following groups:
(1) Residents of the State of New Hampshire.
(2) Residents of districts west of the Mississippi.
(3) Residents of districts, south of the Potomac and Ohio Rivers.
(b) It shall be a prevailing factor in selecting among groups of otherwise equally desirable applicants.
C. PROCEDURE
1. Two personal rating blanks and a school activity blank shall be sent to each applicant at once and henceforth kept up with the application lists. It shall be the duty of each applicant to have these blanks filled out and returned direct to the Director of Admissions. One of the personal rating blanks shall be made out confidentially by the applicant's principal and the other, if possible, by a Dartmouth alumnus or undergraduate or other individual known to the College.
2. The principal shall be requested to furnish the applicant's rank in his class and grades in subjects offered for admission by the end of the first term of senior year.
3. By April first application lists shall be closed and each applicant circularized to determine whether he still expects to enter in 1922 if he be selected. Consideration will be given to no man applying after April first excepting only the man who can present the most exceptional qualifications as to high scholarship, character, school records, or other conclusive reasons, making for belief that he is a man of outstanding promise.
4. The net lists of applicants shall then be divided into groups selected according to priority of application.
5. Selection from each group shall be made: (a) from those entering from the highest quarter of their classes (b) from those having high personal ratings and valuable school activities (c) by the principals of occupational and geographical distribution Report of Committee on the PhysicalDevelopment of the Plant
The above committee made a report through its chairman, Mr. Blunt, and after its discussion it was Voted, that the Trustees authorize the Chairman of the Committee on Physical Development to contract with John Russell 'Pope to make a survey of the College Plant and to furnish to the Committee on Physical Development, after a careful study of the physical needs of the College, a graphic plan of this survey; this to take into consideration as its first activity the immediate necessity for a dormitory to accommodate 150 students, to be located on the so called Hitchcock property. It was also further Voted, that the Trustees extend their thanks to the separate architects who have so courteously given evidence of their work to the Committee on Physical Development for the consideration of the Trustees.
Budget for 1921-1922 Approved
The budget presented by the Treasurer for the year 1921-1922 was considered and approved.
Loan to Outing Club
Voted, to loan to the Dartmouth Outing Club a sum sufficient to build a modern ski-jump, to be paid, principal and interest, within five years.
There was a discussion of the development of the Memorial Athletic Field, with special reference to the erection of a grand stand, but no action was taken.
Adjourned at 6.48 P. M.
